Apparel-corset.



D. KOPS.

APPAREL CORSET.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 1a Patented Sept. 2, 1913.

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D. KOPS.

APPAREL CORSET.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 13, 1912.

Patented Sept. 2, 1913.

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DANIEL KOPS, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

APPAREL-CORSET.

meats To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DANIEL Kore, a citizen of the United States, residing at the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Apparel- Corsets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements at the front and in the skirt portions of apparel corsets. These skirt portions usually extend over the thighs and upper portions of the limbs, and devices such as elastic webbing members have been introduced therein at these places for the purpose of reducing an over-development of these portions of the body, and they have been found very successful in accomplishing such purpose. The objection to this structure has become manifest in use, that when the wearer of this form of corset occupies a sitting posture, there is danger, particularly of the elastic parts,puckering at the fold produced along the groin line. This condition visually apparent, particularly through the tight or snug fitting dress skirt of the present times, and it is the object of my present invention to overcome even this dot'eet in feminine apparel.

In carrying out my invention, I employ in each half of the apparel corset at the front an auxiliary skirt formed with the corset skirt and forming a double thickness therewith, the same being free from the corset and skirt along the bottom and along a vertical edge near the front. This auxiliary skirt overlies the skirt proper and any elastic or other tension devices inserted in the skirt, and I do not limit my invention to the manner of connecting these auxiliary skirt parts.

A hose supporter is secured to the lower front corner of each auxiliary skirt for a holding down and flattening effect in a standing posture of the wearer. In a sitting posture, each auxiliary skirt is relatively free so as to lie comparatively loosely and yet smoothly over any puckered condition of the skirt parts, or elastic parts, produced from the sitting posture along the groin line, and which puckers come beneath the auxiliary skirts, there being at the same time a reasonable amount of tension produced on the auxiliary skirt members to maintain them in a smooth condition.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is an elevation Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 13, 1912.

Patented Sept. 2, 1913.

Serial No. 709,133.

at the lower front portion of the corset from the under side, showing forms o'l. my invention in the halves of the corset. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the lower portion of the corset from the outside. Fig. 3 is a horizontal cross section along the dotted line a) a: of Fig. 1 looking in the direction of the arrow. Fig. 4 is a vertical cross section along the dotted line :I/ y of Fig. 1 looking iii the direction of the arrow, and Fig. 5 is an elevation of the lower portion of a corset, from the inside, illustrating a modified form of the invention.

Similar letters and numerals of reference indicate similar parts in all the figures.

a and I) represent the halves of an apparel corset. 0 and (Z are the skirts of the same.

1 and f represent elastic reducing members inserted in the skirts 0, (Z, of the corset, approximately or slightly forward of the sides of the corset, and which elastic re ducing members cross the groin line near the sides of the thighs or upper parts of the limbs, for the purpose of reducing the fullness or over-development of such members of the body. These elastic reducing members are connected along opposite edges but are disconnected at the respective ends, whereby they are free to stretch under tension.

in and 27 represent auxiliary skirts at the front, each formed with the halves of the apparel corset and located below the stays t or boning of the corset in the skirts, and with the skirts forming a double thickness of fabric or, in other words, overlying parts. These auxiliary skirts are disconnected and free at their lower edges and vertical adjacent :tront edges and atthe forward corners they are provided with hose supports 7; 7c. The vertical distant lines of union of the auxiliary skirts 72., ii, to the skirts 0 (Z of the corset are at the line of sewing 3 beyond or approximately at the union of the distant edges of the elastic reducing members (2 f of the skirts, so that in any event these auxiliary skirts extend over the elastic reducing members and cover the same. The hose supporters Z: and is acting simultaneously and in conjunction with usual hose supporters Z Z maintain the skirts and auxiliary skirts of the corset at the front in a taut condition in a standing posture of the wearer. This tension is released or greatly modified in a sitting posture. However, in this sitting posture,

the corset skirts along the groin line from the side invariably fold in and pucker at the outer end of the fold or crease to a reater or less extent and this is particularly the case where elastic reducing members, such as e, f, are inserted in these corset skirts. This puckered condition is visually apparent because of its modifying influence upon a tight fitting or snug over skirt in a sit-- ting posture of the wearer. This visual condition is more or less undesirable and annoying, but is entirely obviated and overcome by the auxiliary skirts which overlie the reducing members and to which just sufficient tension is imparted to cause the same to lie smooth and cover up the puckered condition beneath. Furthermore, there is a function produced by the auxiliary skirts it, i, of my invention and the hose supporters connected therewith when in a standing posture of the wearer, as the same tends to accentuate the function produced by the skirt proper, which should be connected at the front by a fastening device 5 for the production of a circular tension thereon around the figure, the auxiliary skirt by the hose supporters connected therewith bearing upon the skirts of the corsets beneath and by the tension of the hose supporters, holding the same down flat and even slightly bending the same toward the figure.

In Fig. 5, I have shown the elastic reducing members as doubled, indicated respectively at e e in the right-hand portion of the figure, and f f in the left-hand portion of the figure. The double parts of these members lie side by side and are substantially twice the width of the corresponding members 6 and flas shown in Fig. 1, and consequently afford double the elastic width available for the reducing function.

These members are, disconnected from their- Fig. 1 shows the hose supporters 7:: Z and V k and Z as double or in other words as 7 brought together slightly below the respective edges to which they are attached so that a supporter common to each group exerts a downward pull and closing in action of the skirts in a standing posture.

I claim as my invention: 7

In an apparel corset, the combination with the corset halves and the skirts thereof,

of elastic fabric inserts in the said skirts,-

completing the continuity thereof, and extending upwardly from the lower edges to a point below the corset stiffeners, overlying auxiliary skirts completely covering the said elastic inserts, the said overlying auxiliary skirts being free along their lower and adjacent upright edges, and tension.

straps connected to the lower free edges of the said auxiliary skirts.

Signed by me this 8th day of July, 1912.

DANIEL KOPS.

Witnesses:

BERTI-IA M. ALLEN, MARIE D. WOHLERS.

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